If you had assumed Joe Stevenson had been retired the last year or so, you could probably be forgiven.

After all, the former UFC title challenger and "TUF" winner had been next to nowhere to be found.

If Joe "Daddy" went anywhere, he said, it was to get a new mental focus. And now, with that in hand – or in head – he's finally rejuvenated for his Saturday return to the cage against Dakota Cochrane at Resurrection Fighting Alliance 3.